I'm having trouble with a disappearing 'Out of Office Assistant' entry within Outlook. I first noticed it disappear on my own installation of Outlook 2000 a while ago but just this last week one of our users (who has Outlook 97) has also complained of it disappearing from his menu.
I know Office does have a habit of adding the most recently used commands to the Application's Menu Bar but I never heard of it working the other way round!
Does anyone know of a solution or crack to get this facility back? I don't want to really re-install the software as that defeats the object of finding a fix. I would really like to know the reasons and find a solution to the problem.
On the Tools menu, click Customize, and then click the Options tab to find menu choices affecting all Office programs, and an option to reset usage data.
#2. "RE: Out of Office Assistant" In response to TeLo (Reply # 1)
That's great, thanks. That works fine for 2000 but do you know of a similar fix for Outlook 97? Unfortunately I cannot see any equivalent Customise command in the usual place for this version. It's important for me to find a solution because this was really the one I was most concerned about.
From MS KB "To Reset All Toolbars and Menus to Their Defaults. On the View menu, point to Toolbars , and then click Customize. Click the Toolbars tab. Click Reset. Click Close. Found this for Word '97, should effect the program globally like in 2000.
Johnners, I don't remember ever seeing the words "out of" on any menu. Regarding the Office Assistant, a lot of people find it annoying. Is it possible a different user went into add/remove programs, Office 97, add/remove features and then removed the assistant? You can get it back the same way.
